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Membership

An ASAP membership is essential for professionals at any level in the alliance management profession. From professional development to networking, ASAP is the only organization that provides all the tools, information, and resources you will need to create a structure to manage an alliance portfolio, collaboration or partnership.

Strategic Alliance Magazine

Strategic Alliance Magazine is a quarterly magazine published by the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals, and is the only magazine that provides comprehensive coverage of business collaboration and strategic alliance management for both partnering experts and general business readers.

Subscribe

Membership with ASAP includes a complimentary subscription to Strategic Alliance Magazine. Non-members can subscribe to receive SAM, however hard copy delivery is only available in the United States. International non-members can subscribe to electronic delivery.

Digital Copies

As a benefit of membership, ASAP members have complimentary access to the entire digital catalogue of prior issues of SAM through our Member Resource Library. Non-members can purchase individual digital copies of prior issues via the link below.

ASAP Research Package

Discovering deeper insights for partnering and collaborations is one of the ingredients needed for alliance managers to succeed–by having the full suite of recent studies and research commissioned by ASAP, alliance managers are able to takes a look at alliance success rates and factors that influence outcomes and the evolution of the profession including roles, and the effective use and adoption of tools and more. The 5th State of Alliance Study: Business Planning Processes offers a closer look at what organizations do when planning for their alliances, and how business planning processes compare between different operations within the same firm, and the performance outcomes they affect. The final study provides guidelines for companies assessing the viability of potential alliance partners based on the resulting economic, financial, and social capital data.

Alliances, Partnership, and Collaboration Professional Development Power Pack

A special compilation of four articles featured in the Association of Strategic Alliance Professional's Strategic Alliance Magazine, recordings of two ASAP Netcast Webinars, a skills matrix that outlines the anticipated future direction of certification, standards, and industry-specific areas of expertise alliance professionals will need, and a special discount code to purchase Ezra Schneier's recent work Structured Strategic Partnership Handbook.

Certification

The ASAP alliance management certification program offers members the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of core alliance skills and the management of all forms of collaborative business relationships.

Certification Exams

CA-AM

The CA-AM exam tests an individual's knowledge of key alliance management skills. Candidates are tested on overall alliance and operational competencies related to running an existing alliance, but not on the entire alliance life cycle.

CSAP

The CSAP exam tests an individual's knowledge of key alliance management skills and tests on all facets of alliance management from inception to termination.

For more information and to register for the CA-AM or CSAP exams click here.

Certification Exam Retakes

CA-AM Review Course

The CA-AM Review Course is designed to reinforce and refresh concepts covered in the CA-AM exam. Modules begin with a review of key alliance concepts and then moves to a case scenario analysis designed to encourage conversation and clarification of those concepts. Each module concludes with a summary of key takeaways.

Self-Paced eLearning CA-AM Module

CSAP Preparation Toolkit

The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) Self-study CSAP Toolkit is designed to aid in preparing for the ASAP Certified Strategic Alliance Professional (CSAP) examination. Because it is structured as a review, it is designed to reinforce and refresh concepts that alliance managers are already expected to know. It is NOT designed to take an individual with no prior knowledge or experience of alliances and prepare them for the exam. Indeed, one of the assumptions behind the CSAP exam is that candidates have three-to-five years of experience in managing strategic alliances and have already passed the Certificate of Achievement – Alliance Management (CA-AM) examination.

Simulations

Set in a fictitious pharmaceutical organization and modeled after key alliance management competencies, identified by ASAP research, this training will sharpen participants skills and decision paths as they continue to develop your partnership management skill set.